Mozilla is ready to get back in the browser ring on mobile with Firefox 120

• Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons. • While Chrome dominates, Firefox gains ground with user-friendly browsing experience and open-source model. • Mozilla’s focus on user privacy and transparency challenges Google’s ad-centric approach, making Firefox a viable alternative.

  • Gomiboy@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Switched back in the summer for good. Use Firefox in my android as the default browser with DuckDuckGo as search engine. The issue is still relying on the android digital hemisphere as the default OS for my phone.

    Edit : The only thing lacking is tab management. I know there is an extension. But it doesn’t satisfy.

  • arc@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Personally I’ve never left Firefox. Used to develop on it when it was still called Mozilla, and I’m happy it’s still around. Privacy is a major strength of it compared to other browsers.

  • wesley@yall.theatl.socialEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The mobile experience of Firefox with ad block is so much better than Chrome. Using chrome on mobile makes the Internet feel broken to me. I can’t go back.

  • Nipplecreek@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    For some reason I can’t get my Firefox app to actually activate dark mode on my phone. I switch it in the settings and refresh it but it just won’t work so I keep using chrome. Any ideas?

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons.

    Also built in spyware and a LOT of snitching to a 3rd party analytics company that can be disable in flags.

    If you’re serious about privacy use LibreWolf or Ungoogled Chromium if you’re reasons that required the Chromium dev tools.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I never understood why so many people thought it was a good idea to hand Google the near monopoly power we had just prevented Microsoft in keeping. And that was AFTER we saw how bad it was that Microsoft had that power.
      Too many people go for short term gain for way greater long term losses.

      • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I use Chrome for development purposes only. Dev tools in Chrome are much better still. Firefox dev tools used to be a complete mess, they are better now, but still not a match to Chrome.

        But for everyday browsing it’s Firefox for me.

      • paf0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Chrome was much faster and more stable than Firefox for a time, but they’re similar now.

    • Nath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      When it was released, Chrome was revolutionary. Sandboxing individual tabs into their own processes was a stroke of genius. Until then, if a single site ate up all your memory and crashed your browser, all your tabs/sites died and you had to start again.

      It really was the best browser for a hot minute before others copied the idea.

      • Supercritical@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Totally agree. I also knew this was Google’s modus operandi. The early versions of their software can be amazing and they slowly monetize over time.

  • MTK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Firefox kind of sucks in android though and there are no good forks imo, but this is also true for chromium so idk what to do.

    • sock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      i feel like firefox used to suck

      or did chrome used to not suck so much?

      or was i a sucker for bandwagon and marketing

      • Ghostbanjo1949@lemmy.mengsk.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        When Chrome came out it was fairly light on resource usage and speedy because of that. Firefox was a resource hog at this time. Chrome now is a show resource hog and Firefox is much peppier overall in my opinion.

  • GrindingGears@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I might be in the very minority crowd here, but I just can’t get used to Firefox. I mean once upon a time I was clinging to Netscape screaming foul at Internet Explorer too, old habits die hard. But Chrome just clicks for me, whereas the multiple times I’ve tried Firefox, it just doesn’t click for me. Can’t put my finger on it.

  • bloopernova@programming.devEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Tree. Style. Tabs.

    Best damned extension ever. It’s amazing to me that all browsers don’t have this style of tabs.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’m not a fan of hoarding tabs, so with them being short lived I don’t see benefits in having a tree. But I do use sidebery + custom userChrome.css to have exclusively vertical tabs, which save quite some space when collapsed.

      • Xanthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        If you work from home and you have go through a bunch of web resources, it’s really nice. Most of the time you’re opening new tabs, instead of being in the same tab. That way you still have the old web page for reference.

        Specifically any job over the phone, it’s almost mandatory. I love closing all the tabs at the end of the call, though.

        • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Don’t get me wrong, I work mostly from home and open thousands of tabs every day. But most don’t last longer than a few minutes, and if the flat hierarchy is not able to handle them, that’s a sign they should be cleaned up.

          On the other hand, trees encourage tab hoarding, which I personally loathe, but people have different preferences.